1721 in poetry explained

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Works published

United Kingdom

• Joseph Addison, The Works of Joseph Addison, edited by Thomas Tickell^[1]
• John Dennis, Original Letters, Familiar, Moral and Critical. In Two Volumes, including literary criticism^[2]
• Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry, criticism^[3]
• Alexander Pennecuik, An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company^[1]
• Thomas Parnell, Night-Piece on Death a notable work by one of the Graveyard poets
• Matthew Prior, Colin's Mistakes, published anonymously^[1] (died this year)
• Allan Ramsay, Poems^[4]
• Jonathan Swift:
  • The Bubble^[1]
  • Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
• Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1722" (see also Joseph Addison, above)

Other

• Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Earthly Pleasure in God, Germany^[5]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 17  - James Dance, pseudonym of James Dance (died 1774), English poet, playwright, actor and cricketer
• March 19  - Tobias Smollett (died 1771), Scottish-born physician, novelist and poet
• July 9  - Johann Nikolaus Götz (died 1781), German poet
• August 21  - Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken (died 1789), Dutch poet and playwright
• September 17  - Johann Adolf Schlegel (died 1793), German poet
• October 5  - William Wilkie (died 1772), Scottish poet and agriculturalist
• November 9  - Mark Akenside (died 1770), English poet
• December 25  - William Collins (died 1759), English poet
• date not known
  • James Grainger (died 1766), Scottish-born physician, poet and translator
  • Robert Potter (died 1804), English translator, poet and cleric

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• September 18  - Matthew Prior (born 1664), English poet^[6] (see "Works", above)
• February 24  - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (born 1648), English statesman and poet
• date not known  - Rupa Bhavani (born 1621), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Paul, Harry Gilbert, John Dennis: His Life and Criticism, p 64, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
3. [Mark Van Doren]
4. http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)"
5. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
6. Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto